org.onehippo.repository.xml

Interface ContentResourceLoader

All Known Subinterfaces:

ContentResourceLoader

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileContentResourceLoader, ZipFileContentResourceLoader

public interface ContentResourceLoader

Strategy interface for loading resources (e.g, file system resources, zip entry resources or URI based resources).

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
URL	getResource(String path) Returns a URL to the resource that is mapped to the given path.
InputStream	getResourceAsStream(String path) Returns the resource located at the named path as an InputStream object.

Method Detail

getResource

URL getResource(String path)
         throws MalformedURLException

Returns a URL to the resource that is mapped to the given path.

The path must begin with a / and is interpreted as relative to the current content root.

This method returns null if no resource is mapped to the pathname.

Parameters:

path - a String specifying the path to the resource

Returns:

the resource located at the named path, or null if there is no resource at that path

Throws:

MalformedURLException - if the pathname is not given in the correct form

getResourceAsStream

InputStream getResourceAsStream(String path)
                         throws IOException

Returns the resource located at the named path as an InputStream object.

The path must be specified according to the rules given in getResource. This method returns null if no resource exists at the specified path.

Parameters:

path - a String specifying the path to the resource

Returns:

the InputStream returned to the caller, or null if no resource exists at the specified path

Throws:

IOException